Tuesday Morning Tech Links

I flag a lot of techie links, as if I’m going to go and use 39 how-tos or 87 productivity tools right there on the spot. That’s not how it works. You tuck that information away for when you need to look back on it. And a scattering of bookmarks across my five different computers is not a good tucking method.

Hell, even cloud bookmarking doesn’t really do it – for me a bookmark is for a page (in a book or on the web) I know I will come back to at a specific time. This sort of thing is more open-ended.

Luckily, I have the ultimate in permanent memory technology – a nearly decade-old blog.

I sometimes have a blank moment where I’m futzing with my server can’t remember exactly what I’m supposed to be doing with my .htaccess file, and the next time I have that moment I’m going to re-read 16 Useful htaccess tricks.

If you are several dozen levels of “Internets Wizard” higher than that, perhaps you’d be intrigued by the Ultimate Round-Up of Fireworks Tutorials. I have Fireworks now, but what I haven’t had is time to level up my skills in it.

you should save your bookmarks to the cloud! I used to use Google Notebook coupled with a handy firefox extention, but G-notebook is no longer supported, so I started using Google Reader with the help of a bookmarklet. They save to the “notes” section (it’s optional to add to shared items, too) and I tag them appropriately.

Matt. There were a few in the free apps that were a surprise to me. I have some luddite tendencies in that I tend to hang on to older tech long after better options come along (see also: Blogger, WordPress 2.3, my 2004 cell phone). I’ll be interested to hear about your experience with Digsby. I have those functions covered at the moment, I think, but possibly not to the level of awesomeness that Digsby provides?

Dante I am hopeless when it comes to bookmarking/favoriting things for use at an undetermined point in the future – it breaks the way that I use/organize bookmarks, and I don’t tend to rememember to look for things in that context. It just results in 1000s of bookmarks I have to clean up at some point. However, CK is the ultimate memory pit ;)

Yes, I’m the same way. I end up bookmarking things and forgetting about them or never following up… but when I get that random flash of memory of the time I saw that thing and maybe bookmarked it, a google-powered search in G-reader always pulls through.

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